I've always seen it as "they tried to monetize a platform before they had a platform that anyone wanted to use"
Basically, the thing was made from the start to have a bunch of ways to make money, but that didn't actually put a lot of effort into thinking on what would make it fun it attractive to users.
They started the shitification process at the end of it.
They're so used to monetizing that they don't realize they need something to monetize before they can start monetizing.
I've always seen it as "they tried to monetize a platform before they had a platform that anyone wanted to use"
Basically, the thing was made from the start to have a bunch of ways to make money, but that didn't actually put a lot of effort into thinking on what would make it fun it attractive to users.
They started the shitification process at the end of it.
They're so used to monetizing that they don't realize they need something to monetize before they can start monetizing.